Counca Moves to Stop Non-Member Game Violations
Dixon: Drawing a bead on what was called "blatant white poaching of reservation game", the Tribal Council has set the stage for bringing non-member game and recreational permit violations before tribal court.
The Council voted November 9, to change the Tribe's fishing and hunting regulations (Ordinance 44-B) to authorize the confiscation of equipment used by non-members while
violating tribal laws. Tribal Law and Order personnel will now be able to sieze both the equipment and animals from anybody illegally hunting on the reservation. Equipment would be returned after the case has been heard in Tribal Court and a decision rendered.
Equipment that can be confiscated under the new law includes: motor vehicles, snow mobiles, campers, camper trailers, hunting equipment and
fishing equipment. Tribal authorities were previously authorized to sieze these items from Indians but the new law extends the authorization to non-members.
Councilman Tom "Bear-head" Swaney, St. Ignatius, said the action was needed because other measures to enforce the recreational permit law and reservation big game restrictions against non-members were "not working fast
enough". Swaney said; "the federal laws only tie the hands of our wardens and we can't wait for the Superintendent (Acting AGency Superintendent Albert Renne) to decide we have a good enough case to drag one of these poachers into federal court. The only way we are going to get them to court is for our men to take them to our court"
Under the existing fed-
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Vote: 18-Year-Olds Don't, But Poison Candidates Do
Nov. 17 Vote Still Up In Air
Ronan: The election held November 17 to determine whether 18 year olds should vote is still a confused mass of figures and legal issues. But one thing is clear from the preliminary results.. . a lot of people, including the 18 year olds themselves, don't really care if they vote or not.
Unofficial tallies from the constitutional amendment election show that only three of 8 2 18 to 21 year olds cast ballots to decide whether they should be allowed to vote in Tribal Council elections.
Another fact to come out of the early returns was the low total reservation voter turnout. Of the 745 resident voters who registered for the special election, only 226 showed up at the polls. In terms of percentages, this amounts to only 29.93 percent of the qualified electorate. The legal minimum for a valid election is 3 0 percent.
The showing from off reservation voters, whose eligibility in this election is being contested by the Tribe, was substantially better. Of the 1,112 off reservation members who reg-(cont. on page 3) _
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